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ANTONIO SZABO Warm weather in the Northern Hemisphere continues to weigh on the heating oil market, and that has b...
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
T. BOONE PICKENS The move up in crude oil price from $12 a barrel to nearly $31 a barrel has been really positive for...
CRAIG CALLAHAN Some parts of the country are experiencing tight supplies because of unusually heavy refinery mainte...
ROB SCHLICHTING We have analyzed all of our options for alternative crude supplies and we are confident that our alt...
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
T. BOONE PICKENS Everybody thinks we're at the top of interest rates. The rates have peaked and the rate rise is over...
DAVID JARVIS Some technology stocks are being cut because of concern that high oil prices and rising interest rat...
SIMON CHAO I'm surprised by the drop in crude stocks and the further decline in crude oil imports,
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... the flexibility of our market-driven economy has allowed us, thus far, to weather reasonably wel...
ALAN GREENSPAN![]()
The supplies of crude and distilled products appear sufficient to carry the market through the winte...
MIKE FITZPATRICK Crude oil was the one thing not in short supply. What the U.S. lacks is oil products, especially gas...
BARCLAYS CAPITAL Also refinery utilization was lower, which was also unexpected. It means that refineries are not usi...
MARSHALL STEEVES I don't see a catalyst to move prices much higher in the short term. Iran's not likely to cut export...
JOSEPH ALLMAN All of a sudden there's a big stimulus to the economy - interest rates are down, money supply has gr...
BOB TURNER![]()
Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA The price hike comes as crude oil costs continue to climb on energy security woes involving Iran and...
KRIS LATHAN We were up on heating oil in the morning, but ended the day down closer to the levels some would exp...
JAN STUART Warmer than expected weather in key Canadian and United States heating regions has resulted in a dec...
LINO LUISON It's not really that overseas investors are negatively reacting to Japanese stocks overall but rathe...
MITSUSHIGE AKINO I'm negative on oil stocks as I can't see much more further upside in the price of crude. I expect t...
GRAHAME EXTON The decline in oil helped (stocks), as well as the hope that maybe the Fed will be finished raising ...
PETER BOOCKVAR Why do we fall down? so we can rise up and become stronger, better, people than we were before we fe...
GARY F EVANS... If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you s...
DANIEL YERGIN Oil demand in the U.S., China and India is expected to rise further. Supplies, especially of sweet c...
HISAO SATO A significant amount of the hydrogen in use today goes into the refining industry to refine crude oi...
BENNY FREEMAN We still have a positive outlook on commodity stocks, for both oil and metals. Demand is continually...
CHRISTIAN SCHNEIDER It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply lo...
JOSEPH ALLMAN It's refinery turnaround season, and Canadian crude is coming into the state and displacing Wyoming ...
BRYAN HASSLER If oil prices fall, it will help to stimulate economic activity -- the profit outlook will be better...
TONY CRESCENZI Though crude seems sufficient at the moment it is the refining capacity that is the real bottleneck....
ANDREW HARRINGTON Crude oil is approaching all-time highs here. That should support natural gas. I don't think natural...
BOB YAWGER Investors have been climbing a wall of worry because of uncertainties about political stability in I...
CAROL THORP It is in Denver's interest to have a functioning refinery. It is good for the local economy and good...
GREG SCHNACKE OPEC is producing as much crude oil as anybody wants. Refiners have no shortage of the grades they n...
GEOFF PYNE OPEC is producing as much crude oil as anybody wants, ... Refiners have no shortage of the grades th...
GEOFF PYNE The rising mortgage rates have pushed us to a new record home-sales level, but once the fence sitter...
JOEL NAROFF We're still seeing some rotation into more cyclical stocks ... such as consumer products makers, and...
IAN SCOTT Most of their operating profit comes from the U.S.. Everyone's been hurt by rising oil and gas, espe...
PETE HASTINGS Mild weather is one of the factors, and we're going into the heating-oil season with high stocks.
CHRISTOPHER BELLEW Rising long rates threaten the bellwether housing industry as well as consumer spending. The higher ...
LARRY WACHTEL Inflation is the wild card for 2006, with rising oil prices, an increase in commodity prices, slow p...
JOSEPH SENECA This is an industry in crisis. Every oil company will reduce their production forecast as lower spen...
FADEL GHEIT We maintain our overweight rating on the integrated oil sector, believing that the stocks are only p...
JACQUES ROUSSEAU Finally people are recognizing the economy's in good shape and so are profits. You have rates rising...
JAMES SWANSON Generally, a rising trend in rates is bearish for stocks; a falling trend is bullish.
MARTIN ZWEIG It's a combination of a lot of things dragging the market. The Bank of England left rates unchanged,...
DANIEL BIRCH It's a combination of a lot of things dragging the market. The Bank of England left rates unchanged,...
DANIEL BIRCH We are not planning to release any government-controlled crude oil stocks at this time,
SHOICHI NAKAGAWA![]()
Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
and
Just because you don't...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Energy shares are rising because the oil price has hit quite a comfortable level. I'm not really con...
MARKUS ILG![]()
We would like to deal with this firmly based upon our basic recognition that both...the nuclear non-...
SHINZO ABE Oil is down, silver is down, so we have to assume those stocks will be down. I think we'll be a litt...
BRUCE LATIMER You've got (U.S.) supplies coming from a lot of places: more imports, more refinery capacity and mor...
JASON SCHENKER The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the p...
DAVID PRATT The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is de...
JEFFREY LUBELL All the tensions and stress in the world's oil markets are flowing into the gasoline pump. The crude...
DANIEL YERGIN![]()
Negative sentiment has basically led to across-the-board declines, very few stocks have escaped unsc...
STEPHEN WRIGHT The surprise fall in crude stocks has helped the rally and the energy sector has keyed off that.
FERGAL SMITH While sanctions would be aimed at coercing Iran to abandon its nuclear-testing program, the world is...
JACQUES ROUSSEAU While sanctions would be aimed at coercing Iran to abandon its nuclear testing program, the world is...
JACQUES ROUSSEAU Some companies have given disappointing results. Their shares suffer in an environment with risks, i...
EDWIN SLAGHEKKE Property stocks rose because the market is speculating that other Hong Kong banks will also lower ra...
BEN KWONG Where the foreign exchange is not available, we are cutting down our operations. For example, we had...
ALIKO DANGOTE Stocks now become more attractive than bonds and companies will have easier and cheaper access to fu...
YAREK ARANOWICZ Typically stocks don't do well in the face of rising interest rates so I don't think anyone is going...
LOUIS HOLLAND Every negative development in the oil price slams the energy stocks. Oil companies are increasingly ...
JAN LEROY The recent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico highlighted that crude oil prices are following those of...
JACQUES ROUSSEAU Now that the weather forecast has changed to predict warmer weather, the prices have come down quite...
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK The jump in retail gas prices is partly due to the seasonal production switch from winter to summer ...
ROSE ROUGEAU The biggest thing that seems to be out right now is the refinery capacity down there (the Gulf Coast...
GREG STRINGHAM The release of strategic reserves contains a very large component of unneeded crude oil and does lit...
BARCLAYS CAPITAL Refinery activity has been very depressed because of damage caused by hurricanes last year and defer...
ANTOINE HALFF Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA Natural gas and weather are the most important drivers. When it's warmer, we don't see that much sub...
ANETTE EINARSEN Everyone of us will pay lower insurance rates because when more people buy into the system, the rate...
DOUGLAS HELLER I'd be surprised if oil ticks much lower. Stocks are good, but you only have to have Iran start to t...
DAVID THURTELL We have antiquated policies that were put in place in the 1970s that prohibit us from exporting our ...
CORY GARDNER I think that what we have to understand now is that interest rates had been rising for a year and a ...
LOUIS HOLLAND![]()
Climate change is hugely exacerbated by changing patterns of how we choose to live, often in danger ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF Fresh worries about rising inflation in the US and the extent to which the US Federal Reserve will r...
FRANCIS LUN Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month...
JOSEPH ABATE The good news is that there is no constraint of supply here in Utah or the Intermountain West. The r...
LEE PEACOCK Certain preventative maintenance is essential to refinery safety, ... Even in the crisis, if the goa...
DANIEL HOROWITZ Crude as oil is our responsibility.
MONK FROST The current lack of oil refinery capacity is largely the result of a conscious decision by the oil i...
DAVE HAMILTON There is an increased intensity in the trend towards packet-switched equipment, ... Lucent gets abou...
MARTIN PYYKKONEN You'd have to be blind, deaf and dumb to not have known that oil prices went up. But if that indeed ...
BERNARD SOSNICK If bond yields keep rising which I think they will, then not even stocks are safe from a welcome dec...
DAVE GILMORE I'm where I want to be. I would have liked to have had things go a little smoother with the weather ...
CHAD CAMPBELL With the world facing historically high crude oil prices, China's labor cost advantage becomes even ...
MA SHANG If it actually produced as much as it could, obviously, it would add tremendously to oil supplies, a...
ANTOINE HALFF Crude stocks were broadly in-line, but distillate and gasoline were better than expected, but that w...
BRUCE EVERS Crude stocks were broadly in-line, but distillate and gasoline were better than expected, but was no...
BRUCE EVERS We continue to be in this trading range, at the lower end right now, ... The only catalysts that can...
JOSEPH BATTIPAGLIA We are starting to see a change in consumer behavior. Consumers are cutting back because of high pri...
MICHAEL FITZPATRICK We're having one of our mildest winters, yet crude and products futures are rallying. There's a trem...
JAMES CORDIER
MERRILL LYNCH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It is going to be an interesting week for crude oil. Demand is increasing as more refinery capacity ...
ANTONIO SZABO Warm weather in the Northern Hemisphere continues to weigh on the heating oil market, and that has b...
CHRISTOPHER BELLEW
If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. T. BOONE PICKENS The move up in crude oil price from $12 a barrel to nearly $31 a barrel has been really positive for...
CRAIG CALLAHAN Some parts of the country are experiencing tight supplies because of unusually heavy refinery mainte...
ROB SCHLICHTING We have analyzed all of our options for alternative crude supplies and we are confident that our alt...
JEFF MORRIS
If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. T. BOONE PICKENS Everybody thinks we're at the top of interest rates. The rates have peaked and the rate rise is over...
DAVID JARVIS Some technology stocks are being cut because of concern that high oil prices and rising interest rat...
SIMON CHAO I'm surprised by the drop in crude stocks and the further decline in crude oil imports,
TIM EVANS
... the flexibility of our market-driven economy has allowed us, thus far, to weather reasonably wel... ALAN GREENSPAN
The supplies of crude and distilled products appear sufficient to carry the market through the winte... MIKE FITZPATRICK Crude oil was the one thing not in short supply. What the U.S. lacks is oil products, especially gas...
BARCLAYS CAPITAL Also refinery utilization was lower, which was also unexpected. It means that refineries are not usi...
MARSHALL STEEVES I don't see a catalyst to move prices much higher in the short term. Iran's not likely to cut export...
JOSEPH ALLMAN All of a sudden there's a big stimulus to the economy - interest rates are down, money supply has gr...
BOB TURNER
Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA The price hike comes as crude oil costs continue to climb on energy security woes involving Iran and...
KRIS LATHAN We were up on heating oil in the morning, but ended the day down closer to the levels some would exp...
JAN STUART Warmer than expected weather in key Canadian and United States heating regions has resulted in a dec...
LINO LUISON It's not really that overseas investors are negatively reacting to Japanese stocks overall but rathe...
MITSUSHIGE AKINO I'm negative on oil stocks as I can't see much more further upside in the price of crude. I expect t...
GRAHAME EXTON The decline in oil helped (stocks), as well as the hope that maybe the Fed will be finished raising ...
PETER BOOCKVAR Why do we fall down? so we can rise up and become stronger, better, people than we were before we fe...
GARY F EVANS... If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you s...
DANIEL YERGIN Oil demand in the U.S., China and India is expected to rise further. Supplies, especially of sweet c...
HISAO SATO A significant amount of the hydrogen in use today goes into the refining industry to refine crude oi...
BENNY FREEMAN We still have a positive outlook on commodity stocks, for both oil and metals. Demand is continually...
CHRISTIAN SCHNEIDER It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply lo...
JOSEPH ALLMAN It's refinery turnaround season, and Canadian crude is coming into the state and displacing Wyoming ...
BRYAN HASSLER If oil prices fall, it will help to stimulate economic activity -- the profit outlook will be better...
TONY CRESCENZI Though crude seems sufficient at the moment it is the refining capacity that is the real bottleneck....
ANDREW HARRINGTON Crude oil is approaching all-time highs here. That should support natural gas. I don't think natural...
BOB YAWGER Investors have been climbing a wall of worry because of uncertainties about political stability in I...
CAROL THORP It is in Denver's interest to have a functioning refinery. It is good for the local economy and good...
GREG SCHNACKE OPEC is producing as much crude oil as anybody wants. Refiners have no shortage of the grades they n...
GEOFF PYNE OPEC is producing as much crude oil as anybody wants, ... Refiners have no shortage of the grades th...
GEOFF PYNE The rising mortgage rates have pushed us to a new record home-sales level, but once the fence sitter...
JOEL NAROFF We're still seeing some rotation into more cyclical stocks ... such as consumer products makers, and...
IAN SCOTT Most of their operating profit comes from the U.S.. Everyone's been hurt by rising oil and gas, espe...
PETE HASTINGS Mild weather is one of the factors, and we're going into the heating-oil season with high stocks.
CHRISTOPHER BELLEW Rising long rates threaten the bellwether housing industry as well as consumer spending. The higher ...
LARRY WACHTEL Inflation is the wild card for 2006, with rising oil prices, an increase in commodity prices, slow p...
JOSEPH SENECA This is an industry in crisis. Every oil company will reduce their production forecast as lower spen...
FADEL GHEIT We maintain our overweight rating on the integrated oil sector, believing that the stocks are only p...
JACQUES ROUSSEAU Finally people are recognizing the economy's in good shape and so are profits. You have rates rising...
JAMES SWANSON Generally, a rising trend in rates is bearish for stocks; a falling trend is bullish.
MARTIN ZWEIG It's a combination of a lot of things dragging the market. The Bank of England left rates unchanged,...
DANIEL BIRCH It's a combination of a lot of things dragging the market. The Bank of England left rates unchanged,...
DANIEL BIRCH We are not planning to release any government-controlled crude oil stocks at this time,
SHOICHI NAKAGAWA
Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.and
Just because you don't...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Energy shares are rising because the oil price has hit quite a comfortable level. I'm not really con...
MARKUS ILG
We would like to deal with this firmly based upon our basic recognition that both...the nuclear non-... SHINZO ABE Oil is down, silver is down, so we have to assume those stocks will be down. I think we'll be a litt...
BRUCE LATIMER You've got (U.S.) supplies coming from a lot of places: more imports, more refinery capacity and mor...
JASON SCHENKER The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the p...
DAVID PRATT The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is de...
JEFFREY LUBELL All the tensions and stress in the world's oil markets are flowing into the gasoline pump. The crude...
DANIEL YERGIN
Negative sentiment has basically led to across-the-board declines, very few stocks have escaped unsc... STEPHEN WRIGHT The surprise fall in crude stocks has helped the rally and the energy sector has keyed off that.
FERGAL SMITH While sanctions would be aimed at coercing Iran to abandon its nuclear-testing program, the world is...
JACQUES ROUSSEAU While sanctions would be aimed at coercing Iran to abandon its nuclear testing program, the world is...
JACQUES ROUSSEAU Some companies have given disappointing results. Their shares suffer in an environment with risks, i...
EDWIN SLAGHEKKE Property stocks rose because the market is speculating that other Hong Kong banks will also lower ra...
BEN KWONG Where the foreign exchange is not available, we are cutting down our operations. For example, we had...
ALIKO DANGOTE Stocks now become more attractive than bonds and companies will have easier and cheaper access to fu...
YAREK ARANOWICZ Typically stocks don't do well in the face of rising interest rates so I don't think anyone is going...
LOUIS HOLLAND Every negative development in the oil price slams the energy stocks. Oil companies are increasingly ...
JAN LEROY The recent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico highlighted that crude oil prices are following those of...
JACQUES ROUSSEAU Now that the weather forecast has changed to predict warmer weather, the prices have come down quite...
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK The jump in retail gas prices is partly due to the seasonal production switch from winter to summer ...
ROSE ROUGEAU The biggest thing that seems to be out right now is the refinery capacity down there (the Gulf Coast...
GREG STRINGHAM The release of strategic reserves contains a very large component of unneeded crude oil and does lit...
BARCLAYS CAPITAL Refinery activity has been very depressed because of damage caused by hurricanes last year and defer...
ANTOINE HALFF Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA Natural gas and weather are the most important drivers. When it's warmer, we don't see that much sub...
ANETTE EINARSEN Everyone of us will pay lower insurance rates because when more people buy into the system, the rate...
DOUGLAS HELLER I'd be surprised if oil ticks much lower. Stocks are good, but you only have to have Iran start to t...
DAVID THURTELL We have antiquated policies that were put in place in the 1970s that prohibit us from exporting our ...
CORY GARDNER I think that what we have to understand now is that interest rates had been rising for a year and a ...
LOUIS HOLLAND
Climate change is hugely exacerbated by changing patterns of how we choose to live, often in danger ... NICHOLAS KRISTOF Fresh worries about rising inflation in the US and the extent to which the US Federal Reserve will r...
FRANCIS LUN Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month...
JOSEPH ABATE The good news is that there is no constraint of supply here in Utah or the Intermountain West. The r...
LEE PEACOCK Certain preventative maintenance is essential to refinery safety, ... Even in the crisis, if the goa...
DANIEL HOROWITZ Crude as oil is our responsibility.
MONK FROST The current lack of oil refinery capacity is largely the result of a conscious decision by the oil i...
DAVE HAMILTON There is an increased intensity in the trend towards packet-switched equipment, ... Lucent gets abou...
MARTIN PYYKKONEN You'd have to be blind, deaf and dumb to not have known that oil prices went up. But if that indeed ...
BERNARD SOSNICK If bond yields keep rising which I think they will, then not even stocks are safe from a welcome dec...
DAVE GILMORE I'm where I want to be. I would have liked to have had things go a little smoother with the weather ...
CHAD CAMPBELL With the world facing historically high crude oil prices, China's labor cost advantage becomes even ...
MA SHANG If it actually produced as much as it could, obviously, it would add tremendously to oil supplies, a...
ANTOINE HALFF Crude stocks were broadly in-line, but distillate and gasoline were better than expected, but that w...
BRUCE EVERS Crude stocks were broadly in-line, but distillate and gasoline were better than expected, but was no...
BRUCE EVERS We continue to be in this trading range, at the lower end right now, ... The only catalysts that can...
JOSEPH BATTIPAGLIA We are starting to see a change in consumer behavior. Consumers are cutting back because of high pri...
MICHAEL FITZPATRICK We're having one of our mildest winters, yet crude and products futures are rallying. There's a trem...
JAMES CORDIER
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